Cover: Imagining Possible Futures

CRAFTING RESISTANCE

Bottom: DAIR Logo, ISSUE 5

Page Description: In the center are various digital post-its on Miro with notes like "reading toni morrison", "speaking up online", "AI shaming", "spending time offline", and "not using genAI at my job, ever". The rest of the cover is white on top and bottom with orange in the middle. The name of the zine is stylized with orange scribbles. At the bottom is the DAIR and Identity 2.0 logo and "A COMMUNITY ZINE"

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Page Description: Blank inner cover. On the right are several colored digital cursors with a green digital comment: "Let's imagine... What if?"

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The following work was created by participants in a virtual workshop co-hosted with Identity 2.0.

Possible Futures: Crafting resistance was designed to explore your everyday moments of resistance.

We hope these works inspire you to find new ways to critically engage with and resist the unwanted and pervasive incursion of artificial intelligence into various aspects of our lives.

This workshop was hosted by:

Arda Awais Co-founder of Identity 2.0

Savena Surana Co-founder of Identity 2.0

Dylan Baker Lead Research Engineer, DAIR

Pauline Wee Design & Engineering, DAIR

Page description: All of this text is on digital post-its on a gray grid background resembling design software. Around it are stickers of hands making gestures such as writing, making a heart, growing a plant, graming a picture, and holding a rainbow, and behind it are colorful squiggles.

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In the 1920s, Science fiction enthusiasts were disappointed that stories they wrote were not being published.

Instead they wrote to each other, calling what they created “Science Fiction Fan Magazines.” These were then abbreviated as “Fanzines” and then shortened even further to “Zines.”

But zines did not begin in 1920. We can find examples from across India and China of pamphlets circulating.

Soliders in WW1 documented their experiences in written form and tried circulating them when they came back. Even if they weren't called zines, they were being created.

Since then, zines have been used by women’s suffrage activists, queer liberation groups, prison abolitionists, and anti-racist organizers to grow and share radical ideas.

Today, zines are used by activists, artists, and everyday people to spread messages, share advocacy, and build community.

They create space to cheaply and freely express ideas, celebrate diverse perspectives, and challenge or resist dominant narratives.

By making zines, we connect to a long history of amplifying voices from people and communities that have been excluded or overlooked.

As AI makes the world more uniform, sanitized, and subdued, zines’ brash messages, unapologetic design, and overt tones of resistance only get more powerful.

By existing, they prove that humanity, self-expression, and resistance are here to stay.

Page description: All of this text is on digital post-its on a gray grid background resembling design software. Around it are images of zines and a pink post-it that says:

Democracy of the medium - the tech is simple, paper, pens, and photocopiers
Offline
To build community, not content
Purposefully chaotic and undefined
Created out of passion
No permission! No right or wrong!

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Full zine by SF

This zine is on a light yellow background with a bunch of stickers and cartoon images on each page. On each page, in order, are the words:

Words that harm

and evil men that feed them words

are a bunch of parrots

(Stochastic Parrots coined by Emily Bender)

All we really do have...

But if you're reading this... you're not alone! Our words still ring!! Say no to "AI!" Create art!

Keep your AI Claims in Check Inspired by the now deleted FTC blog post 'Keep your AI Claims in Check' from February 27, 2023

You might be surprised to hear...

that we don't have AI yet!

Full zine by Satya

This zine is on a light grey background and features red and black text in bold and different fonts.

In order, the pages say:

AI doesn't "Love", "Reason", "Learn", "Know"

AI generates outputs based on patterns in its training data.

What I had not realized is that extremely short exposures to a relatively simple computer program could induce powerful delusional thinking in quite normal people."

Joseph Weizenbaum, 1976, Maker of (the classist, sexist-ly named) ELIZA, on the ELIZA effect, which is the tendency to project human traits -such as experience, semantic comprehension, or empath - onto rudimentary computer programs having a textual interface.

Crossed out in a red X: AI coworkers, AI employee, Digital Human, AI Therapist

"Anthropomorphic thinking is no good in the sense that it does not help. But is it also bad? Yes, it is, because even if we can point to some analogy between Man & Thing, the analogy is always negligible in comparison to the differences, & as soon as we allow ourselves to be seduced by the analogy to describe the Thing in anthropomorphic terminology, we immediately lose our control over which human connotations we drag into the picture. And as most of those are totally inadequate, the anthropomorphism becomes more misleading than helpful."

"You see, it is not only that the question 'Can machines think?' is regularly raised; we can—and should—deal with that by pointing out that it is just as relevant as the equally burning question 'Can submarines swim?'"

prof. dr. Edsger Wybe Dijkstra in 1985, describing anthropomorphism as a ‘pernicious’ trend in system development.

YOU love, reason, learn, know, lie, dream, understand, think, desire, create, hallucinate.

On a brown paper and pink flower background.

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The zines are placed on a UI with a gray grid and toolbars reminiscient of the Miro whiteboard app. On top is the title: Possible Futures: Crafting Resistance. Descriptions and attributions are in the format of a cursor with a descriptive green comment bubble attached to it.

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Full zine by Nina Yeboah

This zine is on a transparent, checkered gray and white background.

I'm not sure how Bluesky determined what my top posts were. All of these posts were made within the past four days, and were not necessarily the posts I received the most engagement (reposts, likes, comments) on 🤷🏽‍♂️
I searched my top Bluesky posts on January 29, 2026. Here are the first six.

@gotmyniinaa.bsky.social

Al Jazeera: Palestinian journalist Bisan Owda with 1.4m followers reports Tiktok ban.

Text is over an image of a woman with curly hair and a green blouse looking at the camera smiling.

In text with a blue background: Y'all forgetting y'all have had COVID 30 times. Your heart def not the same.

Image: A post from The Associated Press: Officials warm that shoveling snow after this weekend's massive snowstorm could be hazardous to your heart.

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Full zine by Unknown

A four-panel zine with various images.

A phone layered on top of a painting of a gloomy landscape. The phone is opened to the camera app, which appears to be glitching and taking a picture of itself.
A recording that appears to look like an Livestream (with a viewer count and LIVE red button on the bottom) of a pencil drawing of a house
A scanned photocopy of a paper form that says DATE OF COMMUNICATION, FROM, TO but has form field input areas and a blue digital Submit button layered on top
A Create Account pop-up on top of a photograph of a green hill with a blue sky

Full zine by Satya

This zine is on a light grey background. The first two pages are on patterned backgrounds ike flowers, piggybanks, and technical icon patterns. Text is either black, red, or bold.

Machines do not think Machines cannot understand
AI =/= human so what makes you anthropomorphic???

3-4. Language, young man!!!

"Art" = Data Visualization "Music" = Data Auralisation "Creation" = Production

5-8. "Lying" = Error "Hallucinating" = Glitch, Distorion "Thinking" = Processing

why use imprecise technical terms when you're a techbro?!!

"Memory" = surveillance

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Zine extract by Simone Van Tyler

This is on a lavender background. On the left is images of AI images including Sam Altman's Studio Ghibli photo, a lady with two heads, a Tiktok with a lady with an AI face, and a Aquaman-like AI art drawing. On top of these is a red arrow that says Wrong Direction, pointing left to text that says I want AI to do my laundry and dishes

Full zine by @laradoesthings

Image of items like pencils, batteries, coins, electronic waste, and more piled together
How to be annoyingly offline OR how to be annoying, offline
Image of lady with sunglasses holding book and bus behind her

Be late everywhere bc I can't read maps

Screenshot of Youtube to MP3 converter

Become lowkey a criminal

Image of a green cookbook with the title St Martiner Kochbuch

No new fancy Insta recipes

Photo of a window with painted text saying ANALOG LOVE IN DIGITAL TIMES

Get married to the first person I meet

Photo of a crowded mall

No new clothes bc I can't handle the mall

No new fancy recipes

Image of a handwritten receipt with things like sour cream, bread, sandwich

Forget all your ingredients

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Crazy 8 Moodboard, Author Unknown

Eight white square panels. The third panel is repeated above as a zine extract.

An image with white text that says "You wouldn't go to sleep"
An image of a white man smiling with a slighty transparent version of him on the right with his mouth open
A black and blue poster of a world with the word Earth under it
Two images of women: one on the top with long dark hair, and one on the bottom with blonde hair (Ariana Grande)
A sad yellow emoji looking at a white clipart computer monitor
An image of a small grey hamster with huge eyes and a pouty expression
A image of an old lady with huge lips and crazy eyebrows driving a car with the world exploding behind her and smiling, captioned [Leaves the scene after spreading misinformation]
A screenshot of a pokemon game screen with the text box saying AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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Art by Elshadai Tesfaye

This is a handwritten digital illustration on black desktop with white pen text and a squiggly white border.

A POEM TITLED "YO FUCK CHATGPT" by tezeta

"Chat, plan my itinerary for Japan"

But you will never read Aditya's blog post about hwo it felt to hold his fiance's hand and sit by the river at night in Kyoto.

"Chat, give me a plan for cleaning my bedroom"

But how about you call your mother and tell her you're struggling to clean and she will tell you she'll stay on the phone with you while you sort your shirts and trousers.

"Chat, give me a draft essay about xxxx"

But you will never meet your own terror at facing a blank page with the prospect of selecting each and every word that will stain it, and that terror will not be able to shed light on the soul you carry around with you day in, day out...

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Page Description: Blank outer cover. On the left are several colored digital cursors with a white digital comment: "DAIR x Identity 2.0"

Back cover

A screenshot of various digital post-its on Miro with notes like "reading toni morrison", "speaking up online", "AI shaming", "spending time offline", and "not using genAI at my job, ever".